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...1. > > Is anyone depending on targeting the 4.6 mingw ABI even after we drop > support for building with 4.6? > > Cheers, > Rafael > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20131209/8723ce0d/attachment.html>

Mingw switched abis with the release of gcc 4.7 (http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/changes.html). The main change is that now mingw (like msvc) given thiscall calling convention to methods by default. I think the last bug blocking us to support the new abi has just been fixed. The question now is how to switch. The attached patches simply switch llvm and clang to the new ABI. This is similar to what